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From: dboyd2 AT mmm DOT com (J. David Boyd)
Subject: Re: tar zxvf won't  work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:35:53 -0400
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Daniel <daniel AT boland DOT nl> writes:

> Murthy Gandikota wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I am using Cygwin64. I am getting a file from RedHat in tar + zip format. Currently I am able to unzip it and untar it in 2 steps as follows:
>>
>> $gunzip mytar.gz
>> $tar xvf mytar
>>
>> However, I would like to do the following:
>>
>> $tar -zxvf mytar.gz
>>
>> The error message I see is:
>>
>> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>> tar: Skipping to next header
>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>
>>
>> Can someone please  tell me what is the right way?
>>
>> Thanks 		 	   		  
>
> One way to get this error if you download the file through a gzipping
> proxy web-server. So you have to drop the 'z' when unzipping.
>
> Daniel


I think everyone might be misreading.  He can extract every thing completely
successfully if he breaks it into 2 commands.  It is when he tries to have tar
call gzip that it fails.  Are there any known bugs like that in the 64 bit
cygwin tree?

Dave


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